My story "Basic" has been published in Spork, a literary magazine based in Tucson and guest edited by the great Kevin Sampsell.
The entire mag is on the web.
You can buy a beautiful hardcopy through Spork’s website and support small presses.
I'd like to meet:
GAVIN NEWSOM.
Music:
James Brown. Serge Gainsbourg. Talking Heads. France Gall. Ennio Morricone. Absolutely anything Mike Patton is involved in. Devendra Banhart. Mum. Billie Holiday. Radiohead. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Shins. Death Cab for Cutie. Marc Ribot. Pixies. Bjork. Sigur Ros. Hanne Hukkelberg. Marvin Gaye. Tom Waits. John Zorn. B-52s. Buddy Holly. M.I.A. Interpol. Aphex Twin. Weezer. Jeff Buckley. SCOTS. Joanna Newsom. Ween. Le Tigre. Nirvana. Yves Montand. Royal Trux. Johnny Cash. Clap your hands say yeah. Uni and her Ukelele. G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y. Spoon. Otis Redding. And more, more, more... Rock, Blues, Funk and Old Timey!
Movies:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Dr. Strangelove. Amelie. Lost in Translation. City of God. Vertigo. Better Off Dead. The Marx Brothers, the Coen brothers, and Woody Allen. Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg. Brokeback Mountain. Rushmore. This is Spinal Tap. Batman Begins. American Ninja!
Books:
A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews. Drown by Junot Diaz. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson. A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell. Blankets by Craig Thompson. Cry Yourself to Sleep by Jeremy Tinder. Small Favors by Colleen Coover. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. 1984 by George Orwell. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Some other favorite authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Gary Lutz, Craig Clevenger, Bret Easton Ellis, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thom Jones, Jim Thompson, Daniel Clowes, Amy Hempel, Javier Marias, and Bucky Sinister.
Heroes:
Anyone who inspires me: Grandma, Andy Kaufman, Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, Pee Wee Herman, Banksy , Spalding Gray, David Elsewhere , Miranda July, Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, David Wain, Louis CK, Patton Oswalt, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Lenny Bruce, The Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Judy Tenuta, Maria Bamford, Flight of the Conchords , Arj Barker, Neil Hamburger, Rowan Atkinson, Kristen Schaal, Steve Martin, Brent Weinbach, Josh Fadem.
